If you just want a Linux phone, probably not. A lot of the price of the Librem 5 goes towards subsidizing the software development. Pine64 only produces the ha

If you just want a Linux phone, probably not. A lot of the price of the Librem 5 goes towards subsidizing the software development. Pine64 only produces the hardware and leaves the rest to the community, but everyone benefits from much of the work Purism is doing in the software stack. I got a PineTab recently and am currently running Mobian w/ Phosh on it. I'm also still frustratedly awaiting my Librem 5, but those Mobian PinePhones look nice. Someone might say the Librem 5 has better specs, but it's also huge and really not targeted at the average consumer (they probably don't care about the physical kill switches or convergence).